anyone else planning to do National Poetry Writing Month this year? I try to do it every year as an emotional journal for the year, and I'm really looking forward to it this year, as It haas been a weird and interesting year emotionally.

I hope other people wlll also do it, not much poetry happens on this site, or if it does I don't notice it.

what Napo is, is a challenge to write one poem for every day in the month of April. but it doesn't have to be one ON every day, just 30 poems in the month, [I usually write about 3 at a time, because there are always a few says I don't have any time to write anything]

I'll be posting part of them here in some form or other. maybe in the forum or maybe in my gallery or maybe as a artistic representation of the poem,

I just read the rules of this forum and realized Napo and my poetry has no place in those rules, probably, but I'm gonna take that with a huge grain of salt and in the interest of life being better than nothing, post anyhow. censure me if you will, ye forum rulers.

pre-napo poem #1 [I write these starting a few days before April because I'm impatient to start, but I don't count then on my Napo 30]

Before the end of the month, I know,
the chaos will fall into fractal order and reveal who am am for now.

In the mean time

—- [and time is mean isn’t it, cruel really, in so many ways]—-

the words take me where they will go
I, in my weakness, am the resistance that forms the path.

[I write ‘thwat’ instead of ‘that’ and ‘Im’ instead of ‘in’…I thwart my own intentions, I am my weakness...truth bleeds out between the lines and in the typos--cat scratched, thorn scratched, scribbled and erased]

Poetry's not necessarily my thing but, I write some from time to time when I'm in the mood. Granted, I really haven't done much writing in general in... forever.
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And yeah, the writing submissions on here tend to get overlooked/ignored at this point in time.

Not gonna lie, I mainly just look at the images myself on here. Not really so much the writing. Which I'm sure some others may tend to do as well._________________THIS SIGNATURE IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE.

If those of us who write started posting more and linking back to new marerial on the forum, or checking the New Chapters tab about once a week just in case, do you think that would do any good? It is a little hard to find categories, unless you file under "words" or "fantasy - other" since tge same filing breakdown applies when posting writings as when you are posting art, and it was mostly designed for art, but it would still be nice.

It couldn't hurt I suppose. Whether that'll generate more acknowledgement to written work on here in general I can't say for certain. But, some effort is better then no effort at all.

Perhaps also, as another idea, for those who are mainly viewing images, maybe drawing an image related to your writings and leaving a link to your written work in the description may also assist in bringing in some more attention to your written work.

Also, what do you mean by hard to find categories? Like looking for certain genres of stories? EX: Action? Romance? Suspense? Satire? etc._________________THIS SIGNATURE IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE.

when people post videos they put them on youtube and put a still shot from it here and a link to the you tube. I was sort of thinking of doing something like that...when I post a written work, make a illustration and post with it a link to the written work.

By hard to find categories, I meant that if you select "submit story" instead of "submit art," you're looking at the same menu. Fantasy, cartoons, comics, anime/manga, tv, - all that jazz - and the same subcategories as if you were looking at a submission menu for art. There's no fanfiction or original fiction or poetry or essay/article or any sort of categories that just automatically say "submit writing here" showing up for me on the dropdown menu if I am there to submit, and there hasn't been for the past couple of years. I'd actually forgotten that we had the categories, I've gotten so used to seeing them hidden. So I have my first few writings submitted to "poetry" - back when I could find it - and more recent options submitted as fantasy>mythology, misc.>nature art, misc.>fantasy as the closest matches to my topic in the mysteriously ever-present Art Categories menu. I'm wondering whether the difficulty of locating writing categories for submission at all - since sometime in 2013, apparently - has contributed at all to the discouragement of writing submissions (which were kind of thin on the ground in the first place).

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Also, for some reason when I look at "recent chapters" through the main page what I'm getting is a Sonic fanfic circa 2006. And I KNOW there have been submissions since then.

Okay, I think I'm grasping what your saying, if I'm not though feel free to chuck a brick at me. xP

I'm guessing that your looking for something that is restricted and designated to written works only. Right? If I am right, I'm not so certain that having something for written works only is all to important (IMO) because you have all these options to submit to. But, I can somewhat understand what you mean. Personally, I don't think this has any effect on lack of story submissions. As I've mentioned before, some may just be interested in viewing the pictures only, or perhaps just for those who use this site just happen to not be heavily into checking out written works or writing there own work in general.

I know there was a 'writing' category, (though you can submit art to it as well,) however that has be set to hidden so it's inaccessible now. Why though I honestly don't know.

Also... you get a story in recent chapters from that far back? When I look there and in popular stories as well I get nothing at all. Obviously submission were made since then. It would be kinda sad if a writing submission hadn't come in since 2006. xD_________________THIS SIGNATURE IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE.